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JULY |
Tuesday July 27, 1999
War of the Rats by David L. Robbins
Review by Richard Bernstein
Sunday July 25, 1999
New York Times
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston
Review by Luc Sante
Who Do You Love by Jean Thompson
Review by Katherine Dieckmann
As It Is in Heaven by Niall Williams
Review by Meghan O'Rourke
In September, the Light Changes by Andrew Holleran
Review by Peter Parker
The Book of Happiness by Nina Berberova
Review by Adam Phillips
Books in Brief:
Cinnamon Gardens by Shyam Selvadurai
Review by Daniel Rietz
The Lazarus Rumba by Ernesto Mestre
Review by Megan Harlan
Until the Real Thing Comes Along by Elizabeth Berg
Review by Dana Kennedy
Run Catch Kiss by Amy Sohn
Review by Matthew Flamm
Hurry Home: Novella and Short Stories by Ann Scott Knight
Review by Erik Burns
Washington Post Book World
The Lazarus Rumba by Ernesto Mestre
Review by Jaime Manrique
Honeymoon to Nowhere by Akimitsu Takagi
The Informer by Akimitsu Takagi
Review by Katy Munger
Sugar and Rum by Barry Unsworth
Review by Guy Amirthanayagam
The Leper's Companions by Julia Blackburn
Review by Leo Carey
Perlman's Ordeal by Brooks Hansen
Review by Jonathan Yardley
Phladelphia Inquirer
The Palace of Wasted Footsteps by Cary Holladay
Review by Carol Cain Farrington
San Francisco Chronicle
The Palace by Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
Review by Carey Harrison
The Accidental Bride by Janice Haradaya
Review by Karen Karbo
30 Pieces of a Novel by Stephen Dixon
Sleep: Stories by Stephen Dixon
Review by Clarence Major
Things Unspoken by Anitra Sheen
Review by Fred Schruers
LA Times
Havana Bay by Martin Cruz Smith
A Good Day to Die by James Coltrane
Cuba by Stephen Coonts
The Lazarus Rumba by Erenesto Mestre
Review by Tom Miller
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Snow Man by Carolyn Chute
Review by Sylvia Duncan
Friday July 23, 1999
New York Times
A Corner of the Veil by Laurence Cosse
Review by Richard Eder
Washington Post
As It Is in Heaven by Niall Williams
Review by Carolyn See
LA Times
Italian Fever by Valerie Martin
Review by Michael Frank
Thursday July 22, 1999
Washington Post
The Messenger by Mayra Montero
Review by James Polk
Wednesday July 21, 1999
Washington Post
Until the Real Thing Comes Along by Elizabeth Berg
Review by Jonathan Yardley
Tuesday July 20, 1999
LA Times
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston
Review by Michael Harris
Sunday July 18, 1999
New York Times Book Review
Jem (and Sam) by Ferdinand Mount
Review by Michael Upchurch
The Wonders of the Invisible World: Stories by David Gates
Review by Gerald Marzorati
The Artist's Widow by Shena Mackay
Review by Paul Baumann
From the Black Hills by Judy Troy
Review by Willaim J. Cobb
Sacrifice by Todd Gitlin
Review by Judith Dunford
Books in Brief:
The Breakage by Glyn Maxwell
Review by Andy Brumer
God is a Bullet by Boston Teran
Review by Jonathon Keats
The Boy in the Lake by Eric Swanson
Review by Peter Kurth
The Mammy by Brendan O'Carroll
Review by Michael Porter
Chinhominey's Secret by Nancy Kim
Review by Philip Gambone
Lucky Man, Lucky Woman by Jack Driscoll
Review by Laura Green
Washington Post Book World
The Fencing Master by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Review by Michael Dirda
Layover by Lisa Zeidner
Steps and Exes by Laura Kalpakian
Review by Bella Stander
Broken Heart Blues by Joyce Carol Oates
Review by Linda Wolfe
The Good Times by James Kelman
Review by George P. Pelecanos
Jem (and Sam) by Ferdinand Mount
The Journal of Mrs. Pepys: Portrait of a Marriage by Sara George
Review by Bruce Cook
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
Review by Bart Schneider
The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin by Richard Lourie
Review by Anthony Olcott
Philadelphia Inquirer
One Hundred and One Ways by Mako Yoshikawa
Review by Carlin Romano
San Francisco Chornicle
True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway
Review by Willaim T. Vollmann
The Artist of the Missing by Paul LaFarge
Review by Paul Hoover
City of Light by Lauren Belfer
Review by Jeanne Fay
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
Benjamin's Gift by Michael Golding
Circling the Drain by Amanda Davis
The Hiawatha by David Treuer
Careful What You Wish For by Myrlin A. Hermes
Review by John Perry
Lamb in Love by Carrie Brown
Review by Erik Tarloff
The Paris Pilgrims by Clancy Carlile
The Crook Factory by Dan Simmons
Review by David Bowman
LA Times
Brief Interviews Wtih Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
Review by Jonathan Levi
Dead Philadelphians by Frank Frost
Review by Peter Green
Discoveries:
A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan
The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
Review by Helen Verongos
Holy Smoke by Anna Campion and Jane Campion
Review by Martha Baker
Wednesday July 14, 1999
New York Times
The Jukebox Queen of Malta by Nicholas Rinaldi
Review by Richard Bernstein
Monday July 12, 1999
New York Times
The Prosecution by D.W. Buffa
Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Sunday July 11, 1999
New York Times Book Review
Paris Trance by Geoff Dyer
Review by Daniel Mendelsohn
Interpreter of Maladies: Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
Review by Caleb Crain
Buxton Spice by Oonya Kempado
Review by Patrick Markee
True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway
Review by James Wood
The Metaphysical Touch by Sylvia Brownrigg
Review by Geoff Nicholson
My Russian by Dierdre McNamer
Review by Susan Bolotin
Still Waters in Niger by Kathleen Hill
Review by Annette Kobak
The Salesman by Joseph O'Connor
Review by James Saynor
Books in Brief:
The Good Times: Stories by James Kelman
Review by David L. Ulin
Billy and Girl by Deborah Levy
Review by Mary Elizabeth Williams
My Darling Elia by Eugenie Melnyk
Review by Clea Simon
Mosaic Man by Ronald Sukenick
Review by Willaim Ferguson
Chump Change by David Henry
Review by Matthew Flamm
Washington Post Book World
The Wedding Jester by Steve Stern
Review by Sanford Pinsker
Coast to Coast by Frederic Raphael
Review by Lev Raphael
Someone to watch Over Me by Richard Bausch
Review by Howard Frank Mosher
Local Girls by Alice Hoffman
Review by Joan Smith
Poetry:
This Great Unknowing: Last Poems by Denise Levertov
Late Leisure by Eleanor Ross Taylor
Vita Nova by Louise Gluck
Review by Harriet Zinnes
Philadelphia Inquirer
True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway
Review by Sanford Pinsker
Layover by Lisa Zeidner
Review by Thomas J. Brady
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Review by Shankar Vedantam
The Wonders of the Invisible World by David Gates
Review by Dan DeLuca
Umbertina by Helen Barolini
Review by Mary Anne Mennino
San Francisco Chronicle
Who's Irish by Gish Jen
Review by Daniel Orozco
How the Body Prays by Peter Weltner
Review by Dennis Harvey
The Life I Lead by Keith Banner
Review by David Wiegand
LA Times
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. REowling
Review by Jonathan Levi
Sunday July 4, 1999
New York Times
Midnight Champagne by A. Manette Ansay
Review by Laura Jamison
The Redhunter by William F. Buckley
Review by Charles McCarry
Sugar and Rum by Barry Unsworth
Review by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
The Artist of the Missing by Paul La Farge
Review by Jonathan Coe
The Way People Run: Stories by Christopher Tilghman
Review by Rand Richards Cooper
Books in Brief:
The Stones Cry Out by Hikaru Okuizumi
Review by William Ferguson
The Accidental Bride by Janice Harayda
Review by Maggie Galehouse
Letter to Lorenzo by Amanda Prantera
Review by David Galef
Benjamin's Gift by Michael Golding
Review by Sarah Blustain
By the Shore by Galaxy Craze
Review by Carol Peace Robins
Washington Post Book World
The Drowning People by Richard Mason
Review by Adam Mazmanian
Famous After Death by Benjmin Cheever
Review by Mike Musgrove
If Men Were Angels by Reed Karaim
Review by Lois Bayard
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Review by Michael Dirda
Philadelphia Inquirer
Go West Young F*cked-up Chick by Rachel Resnick
Review by Carlin Romano
San Francisco Chronicle
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
Review by Jeanne Fay
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston
Review by Chris Bohjalian
A Corner of the Veil by Laurence Cosse
Review by Jennie Yabroff
The Strangeness of Beauty by Lydia Y. Minatoya
Review by Janice P. Nimura
Go west Young F*cked-Up Chick by Rachel Resnick
Review by Pleasant Gehman
Valparaiso: A Play by Don DeLillo
Review by Andrew Roe
Coast to Coast by Frederic Raphael
Review by Phoef Suttton
LA Times
As It is in Heaven by Niall Williams
Review by Jonathan Levi
First Fiction
The Metaphysical Touch by Sylvia Brownrigg
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Syrup by Maxx Barry
Chump Change by David Eddie
Miracle Man by Ben Schrank
Review by Mark Rozzo
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Ladies Man by Elinor Lipman
Review by Lee Ann Sandweiss
Until the Real Thing Comes Along by Elizabeth Berg
Review by Colleen Kelly Warren
Hollywood & Hardwood by Tricia Bauer
Review by Colleen Kelly Warren
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